PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Reinforcement, Slot Machine, Classical Conditioning
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Classical conditioning: process by which organisms learn the contingencies between biologically important stimuli and events. Instrumental conditioning: explicit training between involuntary behaviors and consequences, ex. (touch a hot stove = get burned: the learning of a contingency between behavior and consequence. Thorndike"s experiment: measured time it took a cat to learn to open a door by pulling the string in a puzzle box. Measures the time it took cat to learn to open the door by pulling a string. Eventually pull the string; on trials after upon discovery, the cat would escape immediately when placed in the same puzzle box frequency of the random behaviors that did not lead to escape would occur less frequently. The law of effect law of effect: behaviors with positive consequences are stamped in & ones with negative consequences are stamped out. Rope pulling behavior get stamped in access to food. Stamped in because consequence was receiving food. Behaviors with positive consequences are stamped in.
